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Originally Posted by MFCT
Let's say you're a renter, and your landlord takes you to court for not paying rent for the past 6 months. You provide cancelled checks for those 6 months in question, all having been filled out clearly and properly to your landlord, and all paid in full.
The judge states that while there appears to be no evidence that you have not paid rent to your landlord for those 6 months in question, it does not prove that a crime hasn't been committed. Therefore, you're sentenced to eviction, 6 months in jail, a $5000 fine, and ordered to pay 6 months in back rent to your landlord.
If "innocent until proven guilty" doesn't apply to the president, it does not apply to any of us. You don't have to support the president, but you should not support this "precedent."
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This has zero to do with obstruction. First, this is civil case not a criminal. Second, there is clear evidence that no crime was committed because they provided the cancelled checks as proof.
There would be no fine or jail time even if the renter was found in the wrong.
Let's discuss a more accurate scenario:
One night you are at a party with some people. The next day you are visited by the police who tell you that someone at that party was attacked, beaten, and robbed so they are investigating it. They talk to you and tell you they may need a statement later from you.
You then set out to stop the investigation. You call the people you knew that were there that night and tell them to not talk to the cops. You go back to the house where the party was and make sure there is nothing there that could point to a crime being committed even destroying a few things you think might be evidence and you lie to the police about some things to throw them off the trail. In short, you obstruct their investigation.
When it is all said and done, the police determine that nobody was actually attacked or robbed and it was all a big misunderstanding. So, no crime was committed at the party, but you committed a crime trying to impede the investigation.